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Has anyone else won medals at both Artistic and Aerobic Worlds?
… At the age of thirty-one, Isabelle Severino has just received the National Order of Merit from the French Republic in recognition of her exemplary career at the elite international level, and in both Artistic and Aerobic Gymnastics. …
She’s done a LOT in her illustrious career. And might have done even more if not for a torn Achilles that kept her out of the 2008 Olympics.
The 27th Southeast Asian Games are scheduled to be held in Naypyidaw, the new capital of Myanmar …
I visited the country in 1998, stopping by the National Team Gymnastics Training Centre. There is no nation whackier than Myanmar … aside from North Korea.
Hillary Clinton just visited. There’s some hope of a warming of relations with the world.
Around 7,000 athletes and 2,500 officials from Southeast Asian countries will participate. A government official vows they will organize better SEA Games than the one just finished in Indonesia.
They don’t seem to have a website yet. That doesn’t look good for organizers. …
Tug-of-War is a sport — really? — expected to be added for those Games.
Today I heard a rumour that Artistic Gymnastics might be dropped. I highly doubt that organizers will be allowed to drop a popular Olympic sport and add Tug-of-War. Best case scenario — the Games will be moved. I have no faith in Myanmar.
There’s a lot of good stuff on this long video. It starts with the full skill — whatever you call it in your gym — then shows many drills.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (12min 37sec)
Personally I like the release with one hand before the other as a progression.
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… Jamie Atkin, the club manager and head coach at Airdrie Edge, was honoured … as Gymnastics Canada’s 2010 Coach of the Year in Tumbling and Trampoline (T&T).
Atkin, who is coach to (two time) world champion and recently crowned Gymnastics Canada’s 2010 T&T Athlete of the Year Corissa Boychuk, was modest when asked about the honour.
“That’s really Corissa’s accomplishment and I’m just along for the ride,” Atkin said. …
That photo from James Emery.
Will he be named 2011 Coach of the Year, too?
Thanks Brett MacAulay. And thanks Boris Verkhovsky who introduced the sport to our city so many years ago.
We just got word that Kieran Behan from Ireland is currently sitting in first place on floor at the Ostrava World Cup Challenger in the Czech Republic in qualification.
Kieran, sponsored by athletic clothing company Stoi Athletic Wear, has performed excellently at his two previous challenger cups, winning medals on floor at both competitions. …
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Tied 1st with Eleftherios Kosmidis GRE 14.850.
2011 Ostrava Grand Prix prelim results MAG and WAG
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Posted some Soviet training from 1986. Gymnasts include Olga Strazheva (’88 Olympian and ’89 AA Bronze medalist), ’81 World Champion Olga Bicherova, ’87 World Silver medalist Elena Gurova, ’88 Olympic Gold medalist Elena Shevchenko, and Aleftina Priakhina (’87 Worlds alternate and queen of the full twisting everything)
V- Yurchenko full on full twisting tsuk off
UB- Full twist back handspring mount, full in dismount
BB – Full twist back handspring to back hip circle mount, standing full, gainer rulfova, full in dismount
FX – Double double mount, 1 1/2 to double back, full in dismountHard to believe this was 25 years ago. 2 full in dismounts off beam (Gurova and Shevchenko) and 2 double double mounts on floor (Priakhina and a girl I can’t identify) and 3 full in dismounts (Shevchenko, Priakhina, and Gurova).
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (1hr 25min)
Gymnasts were much tougher in that era. Wow.
… Team Russia. Gymnastike takes you inside their training session in Tokyo, just 24 hours before the 2011 World Championships Team Final where the finished 2nd behind Team USA. …
Gymnasts in this video: Viktoria Komova, Tatiana Nabieva, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Yulia Inshina, Yulia Belokobylskaya, and team alterante Alyona Polyan. Head coach is Alexander Alexandrov.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NzE5NTIyNzA5?related=1
Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org
Part 1 of 1994 Australian gymnastics documentary that looks at gymnasts training at the AIS in Canberra. Narrated by Monique Allen.
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Monique credits then National Coach Ju Ping Tien for her success. And for changing forever the sport in Australia.
1991 World Championships in Indianapolis, the Australian women finished 6th as a team, the biggest “shocker” of the competition (aside from Pak Kim from North Korea winning Bars).
Many were highly impressed, including me. In fact, in 1993 I made a “research” trip to Australia to see how a “free” nation with a small population could be so successful. (I followed in the footsteps of coach Dana Brass who had done a similar tour the year prior.)
Ten days I spent at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, mightily impressed. However, over that period I was very much unimpressed with Ju Ping who seemed to coach inconsistently and in erratic ways. She’d storm into the gym, yell at a few kids and coaches, then storm out. It was a marked contrast to the Men’s Head Coach at the time, Warwick Forbes, calm, organized and focused.
I could be wrong about Ju Ping Tien. Many, many have told me that she did wonderful things during her era.
related – my Gymnastics in Australia ‘93 report
I hope to get back Down Under in January 2012.
The latest from JAO.
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Don’t spend too much time perfecting Cast to horizontal for some age group competition. Do the minimum needed, and work towards the future. Bars is still the weakest apparatus in most gyms.
